If you are visiting this website, either
you or someone you know needs a new hip. There is pain
and it is no longer bearable. The time has come to stop
taking pain killers, take your health into your own hands
and start on the road to being active again. Learn about hip
resurfacing, it is a bridge to a new life. Hip Resurfacing can remove your pain, give you peace
of mind and restore you life. Start living again
and stop fighting hip pain.
As a television medical
correspondent for decades on shows like Today,
Dateline and the CBS evening News and author of 12
books on consumer medicine, I have to admit it. I
have never faced a more vexing decision than
choosing between a total hip replacement and hip
resurfacing. The claims and data appeared wildly
contradictory and each surgeon’s take was miles
apart from the others...
...I called great friends in
orthopedics at the leading Harvard hospitals and in
NY, Baltimore and Los Angeles. The word I got was
emphatic. Don’t do the hip resurfacing, it’s a
failed concept. It failed in the 70s and its doomed
to fail again...
...I began reading the entire world
literature. I called doctors in France, England,
Belgium, Germany. The more I read, the less I seemed
to know...
The Surface Hippy Website was conceived
and designed by Patricia Walter. Patricia had her hip
resurfaced with a BHR,
Birmingham Hip Resurfacing, in March 2006 with
Dr. De Smet
of Belgium. She felt there was a need for a website to help people learn about hip resurfacing. She knew
first hand that it was a wonderful solution for a hip
replacement and wanted to help others learn about hip
resurfacing. Visit
Pat's Corner to read her informative articles about hip
resurfacing including
How to Choose A Doctor and
Questions to Ask Your Doctor.
Surface Hippy is not financially
controlled by any medical companies, doctors or hospitals. Patricia donates her time to maintain the website
and adds information almost daily. Hundreds of prospective
hip resurfacing patients have written to her asking for
information. The website is a collection of information to
help people learn about hip resurfacing. Surface Hippy is
a patient to patient guide. Almost 7000 unique visitors
use the website each month.
Some doctors have been kind enough to
provide articles about different subjects pertaining to hip
resurfacing,
video interviews and
personal interviews. It is always interesting to learn from a
doctors point of view. The website does not provide medical
advice, only your surgeon can tell you what is right for
your own situation.
Many hip resurfacing patients have
provided their
Hip Stories so hip resurfacing candidates
can learn from their experiences. They explain about their
decision to have a hip resurfacing, their surgeries, the hip resurfacing
device they received, their
doctor, their hospital experiences and their recoveries.
If you are a first time visitor to
Surface Hippy you might wonder where to start to learn about
hip resurfacing. The new
Visitor's Guide is now available to help you start to
learn about hip resurfacing.
Do you have questions about hip
resurfacing? Maybe they have already been answered by a
doctor writing for Surface Hippy at
the
Frequently Asked Questions section. The
Doctor Video Interviews and
Doctor Written Interviews section also features individual
doctors answering many questions about hip resurfacing.
Do you want to learn about 855 hip
resurfacing patients' surgeries and recoveries? Then don't
miss the
Yahoo Surface Hippy Survey. 855 Surface Hippies answered
40 detailed questions about their complete hip resurfacing
experience.
If you would like to talk about hip
resurfacing with other surface hippies, visit the
Hip Talk discussion group. Ask questions - get answers.
Find support from other people that have had or will have
hip resurfacing.
Are you interested in personal stories
about people's experience with hip resurfacing surgery?
Visit the
Hip
Stories section to read over 100 personal stories about hip
resurfacing. The
Surface Hippy Blogs also feature personal hip stories
posted by patients about their hip resurfacing experiences.
If you are an athlete and wonder how hip resurfacing
athletes recover don't miss the
Athletes Stories.
Are you interested in information about
traveling to India for hip resurfacing
and up-to-date hip resurfacing information from the
Orthopedic Conferences? Then visit
Vicky's Corner.
Do you want to learn about the
FDA Approved
hip resurfacing devices? Visit the
FDA Approvals Page.
Many people with hip pain also have associated back
pain, knee pain, joint pain and arthritis pain. Patricia
has other Patient to Patient Websites featuring
information about these associated problems. Click on
the area of interest to visit the websites and learn
more.
All of Patricia's websites are patient to patient guides
and not controlled financially by doctors, hospitals or
medical companies.
Small donations are
very
much appreciated to help support
Surface Hippy.
Surface Hippy is a guide to information about hip
resurfacing. It does not provide medical advice. Only an experienced hip
resurfacing surgeon can tell you if if you are a candidate for hip resurfacing.
Surface Hippy is a Patient to Patient Website
and is not controlled by any medical companies, doctors or hospitals. All
content is controlled by Patricia Walter - Owner/Webmaster of Surface Hippy.
